WaveLab 3.0x
05/02/2002
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Updated CDR drivers.
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Compatibility with WDM audio drivers.
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One should not apply on this version any CDR
patch produced in 2001 or earlier.
08/06/2001
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Auto Split: bug fixed when saving files under
the mode “Split at Beats”.
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Auto Split: presets beyond the 5th
position could not be restored.
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Certain MP3 files wouldn’t be recognized as
such (rare).
31/05/2001
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Converting a file to MP3 or WMA from the Master
Section could cause a crash.
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Samplers: a file received from a sampler could
be damaged.
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In certain cases, it was not possible to burn
multiple CDs (when setting this option in the “Write CD” dialog)
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Audio Montage: a copy/paste anomaly has been
fixed.
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Audio Montage: Unpleasant graphical flashing
could occur when making a selection in a clip.
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Users under Windows 2000 in “User Mode” could
not access the CDR drive.
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The latest CDR drivers are installed in this
patch.
09/05/2001
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Additions
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It is now possible to burn CD-Text from a CD-Montage
(but not CD-Program). There is a new column and menu entry in the CD tab. The
CDR info dialog (menu View) shows if your device is capable of writing CD-Text.
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HAlion support: you can drag and from an audio
file selection onto the HAlion key zone editor. You can also more simply use
copy and paste: copy the wave selection in WaveLab, then paste it onto the
HAlion key zone editor. Moreover, if you use Control+Shift+C, the region
description is added to the clipboard (the old clipboard is untouched); this
allows you to copy more than one region to the HAlion in a single paste
operation. Note: if the file was edited in WaveLab, you should save it before
“transmitting” it to the HAlion; as a matter of fact, the HAlion loads the file
from disk, not from “WaveLab”. Another point: when you have made a change to
loop markers or to the sample attributes (eg. key note assigned to the sample),
and want to save the changes to disk so as to be able to load later the file
into the HAlion, then you should use the function “Save as”. The reason is that
these informations are saved in the file header, and this one is only recreated
if the audio is resaved in the file. With the “Save” function alone, WaveLab
does not save the audio if this one was not changed (but the .MRK marker
file, which is not a WAV standard, is updated), hence the need to use the “Save
as” function in that case.
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Pentium IV optimizations (the previous version
was already optimized for Pentium III, II, Pro, MMX).
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When loading plugins, WaveLab now displays the
plugin file names in the status bar, at the bottom of the screen. This can be
an useful diagnostic if a bad plugin causes the program to halt. Also, WaveLab
tries to display an error message if a plugin has an erroneous behaviour (at
load time).
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Audio Montage: the minimum clip’s length has
been changed from 100 ms to 20 ms.
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Audio Database: now double-clicking on a file
name opens the dialog to edit properties, while double-clicking on the small
wave icon (on the left side) opens the wave in an edit window (as in past
versions).
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The frequency resolution of the 3D frequency
analysis has been multiplied by 8 (at the expense of speed). This gives a
better resolution in the low frequencies (2.7 Hz).
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Markers are now copied along with audio when
doing copy/paste or drag and drop of regions in audio file windows.
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The latest CDR drivers are installed in this
patch.
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Main Bug fixes
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Time-stretching or pitch-shifting the right
channel of a stereo wave would cause a crash.
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It was only possible to type 11 characters for
the ISRC template in the preferences (now 12 is possible)
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When recording a file and the disk becomes
full, an error message is now displayed and the already recorded sound material
is preserved.
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When saving a preset (eg. Master Section
Preset), the preset was not saved if the preset file was set as “read-only”.
This could occur eg. if the preset file was restored from a backup CD. This
problem does not occur anymore.
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Audio Montage: when burning a montage, there
could be a problem when using, in the Master Section, certain plugins with an
internal latency.
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Audio Montage: it was not possible to mute a
clip if that clip was attached to a VST plugin with an internal delay.
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Audio Montage’s auto-grouping: when dragging a
clip from right to left till the position zero, the linked clips could still
move further to the left.
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Fixed: rare problem, not specific to a
particular function, that could cause the program to crash.
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Record box: Spectrum display: the display was
wrong when monitoring a mono input signal.
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AutoSplit dialog: 2 parameters were not saved
with a preset.
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Sample Loop info is now preserved when
batch-processing a file.
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AutoSplit: sometimes, when “splitting according
to silences”, the start of a region was set too early.
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DC-Offset: the percentage displayed for the
right channel was by mistake always 0.
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Normalize: when normalizing a file which is
already normalized, the processing will be skipped (rather than recreating an
identical file)
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Audio Montage: function “Play clip with
pre-roll”: playback did not stop at the end of the clip, and the clip was no
solo-ed.
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Audio Database: the text-search function did
not work properly in certain cases.
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In the Sample Attribute dialog, the middle C
has been changed from C4 to C3 (to match the Cubase convention).
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Sample Loop information was not saved in AIFF
files (function “Save As”).
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Converting an Audio-Montage to MP3 or WMA would
cause a crash (only with version 3.03).
02/02/2001
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The latest CDR drivers are installed in this
patch.
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Audio Montage: the clip function “Substitute
for existing wave” would cause the program to crash when selecting an audio
file too short to fit in the clip.
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More tolerant to open certain MP3 files with an
unusual header.
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When rendering a montage to a Windows Audio
Media file (WMA), the wrong settings could be used (those last used when
rendering an audio file to WMA).
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Batch processor: fix for a problem with certain
preset file names. Note: in WaveLab 3.0, the plugins that contained blank
characters in their name produced preset files with the same name but with
underscores (‘_’) in place of the blank characters. In WaveLab 3.03, this
procedure has been given up. This has resulted in some preset files not being
recognized by version 3.03. If you are in that case, simply rename those preset
files by replacing the ‘_’ characters with ‘ ‘ characters. Preset files are
located in the folder WaveLab/System/
18/01/2001
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VST plugins with MIDI support were previously
rejected. This is not the case anymore (but no MIDI is supported). This allows
the GRM Tools Vol.2 plugins to now be recognized.
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In the CD-Write dialog, the speed 16x was not
selectable.
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CD-Burning: if a stereo-to-mono plugin was
inserted in the Master Section (or the Master Section “Mono” button was
pressed), then wrong data would be burnt on the CD.
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Audio Montage: if a Stereo-to-mono plugin was
inserted in the Master Section, then the Vu-Meter display was not exact.
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Audio Montage: the option “Clone and substitute
clip” would file with 32 bit float files.
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Recording options: the minimum values for the
thresholds has been set to –96 dB.
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The latest CDR drivers are installed in this
patch.
13/12/2000
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When the option “Save preferences on exit” was
not active, and a CDR function was used, then WaveLab would crash when exiting.
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Audio Montage: Muting/Unmuting or
Locking/Unlocking a clip cleared the undo history.
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AutoSplit function: when splitting a mono file
and creating a montage, the resulting montage could later cause a crash.
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AutoSplit function: when splitting according to
unpaired markers (eg. generic marker), the region between the file start and
the first marker was ignored.
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AutoSplit function, when saving regions as
individual files: if not already existing, the destination folder is now
created automatically.
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Audio CD grabbing: for large CD tracks, the
size of a track was wrongly reported in the start/end/length edit fields (below
the CD track list).
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Audio CD grabbing: playing back a CD track
could sometimes cause the program to hang.
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Audio Database: audio files located on a mapped
network drive could not be open.
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Audio Montage: in certain rare and random
cases, some clips would disappear from the window (it was a graphical problem).
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Audio Montage: using the character ‘.’ In the
file name of a montage could cause the program to hang while saving the
montage.
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Audio Montage: dragging and dropping a clip
into the clip list pane of the group page would cause a crash.
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Audio Montage, CD Wizard: the gap between the
first CD marker and the first clip would not be correctly adjusted in some
cases.
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Audio Montage, CD Wizard: adjusting the gaps
between the markers and the clips, and only that, is now enabled; this function
does not shift the clips.
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After burning a CD, WaveLab could (rarely)
prevent exiting the application, argueing that some processes were still
running.
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When changing the sample rate of a file, the
markers located near the end would not have their position adjusted correctly.
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Waveform Restorer: correction for some of the
displayed explanations. Moreover, the minimum sample selection length has been
vhanged from 100 ms to 2 sec.
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The function “File / Save Special / Convert”
did not copy the markers.
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Folder/file selection box (in various dialogs):
sometimes the dialog box would not open in the expected folder.
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Sampler communication: the transfer with
certain SCSI devices could fail (espescially with Emu devices).
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The latest CDR drivers are installed in this
patch.
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The latest CDDB driver is installed in this
patch.
25/09/2000
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AutoSplit
function (menu “Edit”).
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Automatically split audio files at beats,
silences, markers or specific intervals.
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Regions can be saved as new audio files, or
added as clips into an Audio Montage. Markers can also be created at region
edges.
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Several methods are proposed to automatically
name regions; silence can be inserted at the start/end of regions, etc…
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High
quality Pitch bend (menu “Process”). You can create any pitch
envelope and apply it to an audio selection to create stunning effects.
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Waveform
Restorer (menu “Level”). This new restoration tool
allows you to repair automatically the waveform to remove a click or replace
some missing samples. Several methods are proposed. For the function to work,
you first have to select the area of the wave where lies the irregularity. The
more accurate the selection, the better (you need zooming).
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Much
enhanced CD Audio extraction
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Modeless dialog (ie. non-blocking dialog, can
remain open while working in WaveLab).
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CDDB support (see the corresponding
button/menu)
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CD tracks can be individually renamed before
being saved (also, now one chooses a destination folder, not a destination file
name as before)
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Option to convert on the fly to MP3 or WMA file
formats.
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Direct Playback of CD tracks (by grabbing the
audio from the CD and playing it back through the audio card in the same time).
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« Ultra-safe » mode : an
optional procedure that reads the CD tracks multiple times, doing a checksum
each time, to ensure the most possible faithful results.
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Option "Convert to Montage": all CD
tracks are extracted and a montage with the proper CD Track Markers is created
. Same option to create a CD Program instead. This function interprets the
digital silence between tracks to compute pauses (ie. it does not read
sub-code).
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Option "CD Info" that shows the CD
Catalog Number and its total size.
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Option to extract and display ISRC codes
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Option "Check reading speed". When
grabbing, it's not uncommon that hard-disk writing is a bottleneck. If you want
to check the real maximum grabbing speed, you can use this function.
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“CD Reading Method”. Some drives might not be
properly recognized by the default CD driver recognition procedure. In that
case, you can switch to another grabbing method.
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Option "Automatically refresh". The
CD-Track list is automatically refreshed when a CD is ejected or inserted.
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Option to display time units with CD frames or
standard minutes/seconds notation (default)
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Local menu when right-clicking a CD track:
"rename", "save", "play", "append to
montage".
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A warning is now issued, before actually
starting grabbing, if a file is to be overwritten or is already open in
WaveLab.
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Drag and drop of CD-Track: you can drag one or
more tracks to the WaveLab desktop, to save them, or you can drag them into an
Audio Montage window. In that last case, you can drag them in the clip list, or
in the track pane.
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Support
for Windows Audio Media file format (WMA).
Whereever you can encode in MP3 in WaveLab, you can now also encode in WMA.
Decoding is not supported.
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Easy
batch dialog to convert multiples files to MP3 or WMA
(menu “File”)
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“Easy
Fade” function (menu “Level”). This function performs a fade-in
if the current selection starts from the start of the file, or a fade-out if
the selection finishes at the end of the file. This is a function for
productivity: with a single key shortcut (Ctrl+D) you can fade the audio
without going through any dialog.
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29.97 Drop Frame mode now supported
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WaveLab
can now recognize the new VST plugins introduced with Cubase 5.0. Cubase 5.0 needs to be installed on the same computer. If you have
Cubase VST 32 installed, then you can also use the Reverb32 and Apogee plugins. Important note
concerning the Apogee UV22: 1) it should be the very last plugins used 2) the
Master Section faders should be set to no gain at all 3) the Master Section
dithering and noise-shaping options should be off. In other words, the UV22 should
be the very last process applied to the samples before being rendered to 16
bits.
Note: the VST plugins should be located in the VST shared folder (ie.
shared by the other VST applications). This file path is defined in the
registry at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VST\ [VSTPluginsPath]. If you use the
standard installation options, this should already be set.
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Updated CDR drivers (CDR drivers are also
available as an independant patch).
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Internet links. From the help menu, it is now
possible to open your internet browser to a number of interesting Steinberg
places. It is also possible to send feedback directly to the WaveLab
development office.
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System
Info. From the help menu, it is now possible to get a very
detailed report about your system. This might be useful if you need to get in
touch with Steinberg’s technical support.
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Crash trace. If WaveLab crashes (something that
should never happen <g>), a text file is created to report some
information about the case. The text file is called “WaveLab.log” and is
created in the WaveLab folder. This information could be useful to the
technical support.
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Japanese
language can be selected in the preferences
(only if you’re on a Japanese compatible system)
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Some User interface enhancements
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Several
dialogs are now resizable, mainly dialogs with lists
(CD Grabber, Batch converter, Sample loop editing, ...). Sizes and positions
are persistent between sessions.
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Improved style of message boxes
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Improved File Selector Box (Win98 and Windows
2000).
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Improved Folder Selector Box (Win2000 or if
Internet Explorer 5.x is installed)
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Improved Multi-monitor support
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The last “open” and “save” folders are now
memorized independantly from each other (ie. the default path which is used
when the open/save file selector box opens). Reminder: the last folders are
also memorized independantly for each
type of document (audio file, montage, etc...)
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Right click on the "open" or
"new" toolbar icons are shortcuts to open or create audio files (ie.
no popup menus open).
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The list of "recent Files" is checked
when launching the program: all non-existing files are now removed from the
list.
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The list of recent folders in the file
open/save dialog box is now sorted by date of use and not by name.
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When a text file is displayed (eg. cue-sheet),
your default text editor is used (ie. not necessarily Notepad if you have
another text editor associated with .txt files).
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The application uninstaller is now localized in
german, french or japanese.
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The filename extension for MP3 files is now
using low case letters ("mp3", before it was “MP3”)
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Audio Montage
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New option “Reset plugins when starting
playback” (“Edit” page, menu “Option”). If this option is activated, the
plugins are ordered (before playback starts) to release all samples they could
have memorized beforehand. Without this procedure, a small click could happen
when the playback position reaches the start of some clips. This option is
useful for plugins such as reverb or delays. However, if many plugins are used
in a montage, this could result in a small delay when starting playback,
according to how fast is your computer; this is why it’s an optional setting
(off by default). It is worth noting that some rare plugins mistakenly ignore
the reset command: see next feature.
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New option “Reset plugins before rendering”
(“Edit” page, menu “Option”). A few rare plugins are only properly initialized
the first time there are created and ignore the VST “Reset” command that
WaveLab could send them (ie. they have a bug). This can sometimes cause a short
click at the start of clips, when the audio montage is rendered to a file or
CD. If you use such plugins, the only option is to reload the plugins before
rendering to a file or CD. This is what happens if you activate this WaveLab
option. Note that this option requires as much more memory as if the same
montage was opened twice.
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It is now possible to drag and drop a file,
selection or clip directly into the clip list, to insert it anywhere you like.
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It is now possible to drag and drop files from a
database to an Audio Montage.
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Drag and drop is now possible between two
Montage clip lists (in fact, equally betwen the track pane and the related clip
list, or between different clip lists)
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The CD-Wizard now only sets a name to the CD
track start marker, not to the end marker anymore (this improves reading on the
time line).
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Fades which are created automatically by the
program, now have the shape defined as default.
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Improved file browser pane (faster, more
complete and now displays networks).
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Slightly increased accuracy of the time line at
deep zoom levels
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Improved accuracy of the time line for the time
code units, when zooming deeply.
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The “Esc” key now works like for audio files:
it toggles the range selection on and off.
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Besides opening the marker menu, right-clicking
in the marker ruler now moves the edit cursor at that position, but if a marker
already lies there. This make it easier to create new markers with the mouse.
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The CD-Wizard settings are now saved with the
Audio Montage Template (menu “File/Save Special/Save as template”).
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If you single-click in the clip zone to drag a
clip (by default the bottom part of the clip), the edit cursor is moved there.
Previously, you had to click on the upper part of the clip (this is still
actual).
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The undo/redo key shortcuts for
cursor/zoom/position in an Audio Montage have been changed to NumericPad 7/8
(the previous choice was not compatible with all keyboards)
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Miscallenous features
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The Master Section’s panel has now a
Mono/Stereo switch. A –6dB gain is applied when the Mono mode is applied. This
button replaces the “Reset peaks” button (to now reset the peak indicators,
simply click on them).
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In the “Write CD” dialog, one can now specify
to burn more than one CD. If you choose to burn more than one CD, a message
will tell you when to insert a new CD, until the desired number of CDs is made.
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The option “Eject CD on success” has been added
to the CD recording progress box.
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The quality of the algorithm used in the
function “Convert sample rate" (Process menu) has been improved (yet
slower).
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In the General preferences, there is a new
option called “Optimize audio file headers”. In the previous WaveLab version,
this option was always active and not accessible. Now you have the choice to
switch it off. This can be useful as certain other audio applications don’t
recognize this (perfectly legal) header format. This option is active by
default.
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WaveLab would reject certain AIFF files that
did not conform correctly to the standard. Now WaveLab is more tolerant in this
matter.
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New option in the preferences, CD page:
“Automatically set the pause of the first track to 2 seconds before
burning". If this option is activated, WaveLab does not issue any error
message if the first pause is not set to a minimum of 2 seconds (Montage and CD
Program) and the pause is automatically adjusted to 2 seconds just before
burning. Reminder: the audio red-book standard imposes the first track to be at
least 2 seconds long. This option is active by default.
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Improved performances when adding thousands of
files in a batch.
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MP3 files are no more decoded twice when
included in a batch. They are only decoded before being processed.
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MP3 files are now supported in the Database.
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The edit function “Edit/Paste special/Mix” now
allows you specify a gain for the two signals to mix.
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Under Windows NT/2000, the program icon/links
are created in the “All users” domain, and not anymore in the “Administrator”
domain.
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WaveLab is now fully compatible with network
path notations (eg. \\Server\path\…). Before, it was not possible to save a
file over a network.
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Proper support of Asian character sets (and
more generally, of any language using double-character sets).
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The database can now reference files over
networks.
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The time-stretch dialog now has an the option
"preserve pitch". If the option is off, the pitch is changed to
change the audio length (better quality if you don’t mind changing the pitch).
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The record mixer can show more sliders than
before.
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One can now select 192 kHz as sample rate in
the Audio attribute dialog
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When doing "Save as" for an Audio
Montage, and if an Audio-Montage with the same name already exists, then
WaveLab now requests a confirmation before overwriting the old file.
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New “DDP level" option in the preferences
(for HDA’s DDP driver)
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Now compatible with HDA’s driver for UMATIC
devices (to create CDs)
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Doing "Silence" on the end of a wave
is no more executed as a "Remove end” operation.
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Slightly improved performances when saving an
audio file with the “Save” or “Save As” function.
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Improved accuracy when displaying the effective
CD burning speed (in the CD burning progress box)
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The Fade-in and Fade-out menu items (menu
“Level”) have been replaced by a single item: “Fade-In/Out”. The dialog opens
in fade-in mode if the current selection starts from the start of the wave. The
dialog opens in fade-out mode if the current selection finishes at the end of
the wave. In other cases, the mode is the one that was last selected.
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In previous versions, when adding audio files
to a CD Program, you get a warning if these audio files don’t have any CD
marker. Now you have the option to display the warning only once, and not once
for each file.
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CD Recorders up to a speed of 24x are supported
(if they ever come to exist…)
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One can now specify up to 3 decimals for the
decibel values in the “Gain”and “Normalize” dialogs (menu “Level”). The speed
of these two functions has also been improved.
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The Normalizer function (menu “Level” and in
Batch Processor) has a new option “Mix to Mono”. This allows you to mix a
stereo file to produce a mono file without clipping.
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The function “Eliminate DC Offset” (menu
“Level”) is more accurate and faster.
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When the MasterSection’s Apply dialog opens for
an audio file (not Audio Montage), then the option “Process Selection” is now
the default choice if a part of the audio file is selected.
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When changing the sample rate of an audio file,
the marker positions are now moved accordingly.
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The Master Section’s “Apply” dialog has a new
button to set as output file name the same name as the source file (audio file
or montage). The folder is preserved, only the file name is replaced.
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If one tries to record a file larger than 2GB,
an error message is now issued and recording stops (recorded data is preserved)
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The function "Zoom selection" (audio
window) now yields to a better centring of the zoomed samples.
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There is now a file called "Plugins to
ignore.txt" in the WaveLab system folder. In this file, you can type the
file name of some VST plugins you would like WaveLab to ignore. Anytime you
change this file, you should also erase the file "plugins.set" (this
last file is automatically regenerated by WaveLab).
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In an Audio editing window, a marker line does
not become invisible anymore if another marker lies at the same position.
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Improved alphabetical sorting of plugins in the
Master-Section menus.
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Main Bug fixes
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The program could sometimes crash when exiting,
if the mode “Playback in background” was disabled.
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The program could crash when using the function
“Revert to saved”, if the audio file was part of a montage or CD program.
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When searching for files, the database was
ignoring the files with an embedded [.] character in their name.
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The program could freeze when opening the
record dialog box.
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A few problems with the Sampler communication
engine.
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When rendering an audio montage to MP3 (from
the Master Section), the MP3 settings defined for rendering audio files (and
not the montage) were used.
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Dragging a clip with some effects generating a
tail (eg. Echo) beyond the play position would produce a crash.
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In some rare cases, the time-stretch processor
could cause a crash.
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Selecting the end of a wave did not select the
very last sample in certain cases (could be a problem when fading-out)
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The option “Save special/Save left-right
channel” proposed a wrong default file name in the file selector box.
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DirectX plugins with a name longer than 40
characters were not properly recognized.
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It was not possible to save in 32 bit from the
function "File/Save special/Convert"
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Some volume envelope points (Audio Montage)
would mistakenly be moved when resizing a clip in a particular context.
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After using the "Apply" function on a
window (audio file or montage) which is was maximized, the window is now
correctly restored to is maximized size after being minimized during the time
of the process.
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The Cd-Wizard option "Adjust pause before
track / Round existing pauses to closest second" would not work properly
in certain cases.
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In the Cd-Wizard, is was mistakenly possible to
enable the option "Adjust gaps" while the option "Adjust
pauses" was disabled. In fact, it is only possible to use the option
"Adjust gaps" if the option "Adjust pauses" is also
enabled.
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Using the pause function or auto-start function
while recording in "24 bit alt" mode would add some noise at the very
start (as long as the pause buffer length).
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Fixed in montage: Resizing the edge of one
audio clip that's part of a group would select all clips in that group, even if
the option "a mouseclick selects a group" was not activated.
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Time stretch dialog: the tempo was rounded to
the unity when changing the bar length (ie. no decimals were computed)
Note:
from this new version, we slightly change the system we use to describe the
version number: we won’t use anymore the term “build X”. Instead, we shall use
a letter (eg. “a”) to qualify the version. Eg. this new version is 3.03a. Next
version will be 3.03b, or 3.04a, or…
28/03/2000
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Updated CDR drivers (CDR drivers are also available
as an independant patch).
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When burning a CD under Windows 2000, an error
message was sometimes displayed at the end. In fact, the CD was correctly
burnt, and the message had no reason to be issued.
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Fixes a problem that could cause sometimes the program
to freeze when opening the record dialog (mainly under Windows 2000).
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Fixes a problem that could cause the program to
freeze during its starting under certain Windows 2000 configurations.
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Fixes a problem that could prevent displaying
the record mixer with certain audio cards.
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Pressing F6 to play the current selection, was
sometimes restarting playback from the start of the wave/montage.
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Pressing 4/5 (numeric pad) to move playback
position from marker to marker was not working correctly if the edit cursor was
visible.
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Folding/Unfolding dialog boxes is possible
again (double-click on the caption bar).
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Receiving stereo samples from a sampler could
produce clicks in the right channel.
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Cancelling a dump from a sampler would prevent
closing the dialog box later. Focus problem also corrected in the Sampler
dialogs.
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Transport bar : programming the playback
to stop on a marker or selection edge does not cause anymore the cursor to jump
back to its start position when stopping.
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Transport bar : the playback option
« start from beginning of file » could work erroneously.
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The warning message about the need to have a
fast computer to be able to scroll during playback is now only displayed once
(for Audio-Montages).
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If an Audio-Montage had a missing CD-Track end
marker, editing a pause in the track list could cause a crash.
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In certain rare cases, editing a CD-Track pause
in an Audio-Montage CD-Track list could shift certain clips erroneously.
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The status-bar could display time values with
the wrong unit.
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In certain cases, if a plugin had the focus,
pressing F1 could block WaveLab.
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The clip menu options « Play clip »,
« Play clip selection » and « Play clip with preroll » now
play the clip in mode « solo » (all other clips get muted). Same
thing when clicking on the playback icons in the clip list.
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In synchro mode, WaveLab no longer issues an
error message when receiving MTC code that corresponds to a negative position
(considering the defined offset). Synchro starts as soon as the position is not
negative anymore (ie. when the playback cursor can be visible).
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A clip’s Pan envelope behaved erroneously if
the clip level was not 0 dB in the clip list.
·
The « Show tips » preference was
always active, even if set to Off (preference dialog).
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The « Button size » preference did not
display the correct value (preference dialog).
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WaveLab would not run with certain Cyrix
processors.
28/01/2000
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Improved procedure when opening an
Audio-Montage with missing audio files.
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Certain crossfade looper functions would not
work under Windows 95/98 (Sampler menu).
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Opening WaveLab from Cakewalk was not working
properly.
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Dithering and Master-Section faders were
bypassed when burning an Audio-Montage.
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Running WaveLab under Windows 95 with a Pentium
III is not allowed (Intel SIMD instructions are not supported by Windows 95). A
stop warning is now displayed.
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When doing « Save as » on an
Audio-Montage which references temporary audio files, you are now invited to
save the audio files first.
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The menu entry « redo » was not
displayed correctly.
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Importing a large number of CD tracks from an
exabyte tape was not working correctly (with the optional DDP driver).
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The program could forget to delete certain
temporary audio files.
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In rare cases, a crash could happen while
exiting the program.
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In Audio-Montage, the key shortcut for
« Define impulse » (Nudge sub-menu) has been redefined (was a
doubloon).
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Audio-Montage : the option to test the CD
burning of the « first track » was in fact testing all tracks.
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In the Master Section, the default dithering
bit depth value has been set to « 24 bit ».
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It could happen that a wrong tab name would be
displayed to designate the window with the focus (tabs in the WaveLab main
frame window).
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Double clicking on a clip to open it, while the
Audio-Montage window is maximized, would add samples at the end of the wave
file.
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A few CD burners would only burn noise rather
than the music.
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German online help has been included.
13/12/2000
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CDR drivers are now supplied by VOB (previously
CeQuadrat). If you need to know what CD burners are actually supported, look in
the registry at the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VOB\CDRAPP\Writer\
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Note #1: if you run WaveLab under Windows
NT/2000 and you don’t have « administrator rights », you must
ask your administrator to give you read/write access to the above registry key
(eg. using regedt32.exe). This should concern very few people.
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Note #2 : if required, CeQuadrat
drivers (GRI_* files, if you have an older WaveLab version, or a CeQuadrat
product) can still be used by putting them in the WaveLab’s system folder and
renaming the file « icdwapi.dll » as « icdwapi.dl ».
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It was not possible to run under Windows NT 4.0
service pack 6.
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WaveLab now accepts letters in the last 7
characters of an ISRC number (not standard, but required by some).
·
The offline « Hi-fi Chorus » effect
could sometimes produce a blank result.
·
Audio Signal Generator dialog : it was
possible to select the option « dual-mono files » (Audio attributes
dialog), while this option is not supported.
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At any point, a hot key could give the list of
the shortcuts that make sense in the context.
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Index Marker closer than 4 sec as an option.
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Add personal internet links to the help menu (eg.
User favourite support forums)